A mark of a true professional is their ability to translate their skills from one industry to another — not to mention the faith and courage necessary to make such a move in the first place. One will find no shortage of any of those traits in Veronica Love, but there is also a deeper motivation driving her ventures in the health care field.
“Our family has a long history of being caretakers,” Love told Arkansas Money & Politics previously. “I took care of my grandmother, I took care of my father, my aunt, and I took care of my grandmother’s siblings. We had to learn that being a caretaker was a part of being a united family.”
Love opened Home Health Care Agency of Arkansas in 2019 after 25 years of success in the automotive industry. Overcoming the challenges of both entrepreneurship and a global pandemic, the agency has since grown from a few clients in Little Rock into a statewide operation. Today, Home Health Care Agency of Arkansas serves more than 100 clients across urban centers and rural towns, from Stuttgart and West Memphis to Fayetteville, providing personal care, companionship and transportation to elderly and disabled individuals.
With compassion and a heart for serving others matched only by her keen business sense, Love soon realized she could expand her enterprise to better meet the needs of clients and communities. She noticed the lack of options clients and their families had when it came to nonemergency medical transportation, as well as the strain it put on loved ones as they struggled to balance conflicting schedules and obligations. In response, Love founded Southern Carrier Services to fill the gap with safe, comfortable and convenient transportation…